Every one of us wants peace, joy, fulfillment, etc. But what if all of those things are simply by-products of the thing we actually want?In this episode we begin a short two-episode series called Abide. The main text for this episode is John 15:1-11. We go through the text verse by verse, and focus in on a particular key word that appears 10 times in this passage.**CORRECTIONS**When briefly listing out the fruit of the Spirit, I accidentally switched "gentleness" and "goodness" in the order. Obviously, this doesn't impact the meaning of the text in the least, but I still wanted to correct that.When I was describing the events of John 12 when Mary poured perfume on Jesus' feet and wiped them with her hair, I accidentally said she wiped Jesus' hair instead of wiped His feet with her hair.When I began describing when Jesus fed the 5,000 with the bread and the fish, I initially said that it was in John 7. It is actually in John 6. Every other time I said John 6, but the first time I accidentally said 7.Feel free to email any questions or comments you have to ijustwanttotalkabout@gmail.com. Please note that while it may take a little while to receive a response, your email is very important, and it is not being ignored.Take care!